The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton
By: J. Christopher Warner.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780472115181
Subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374; Epic poetry, European -- History and criticism; European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel; title: Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa; title: Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities; title: Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata; title: The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad; title: Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross; title: Augustinian epic in Paradise lost; title: Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene.